Smith v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Appellant, Lee Sriaith, was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of two years and one day. He urges as grounds for reversal of the judgment that the trial court erred in admitting certain alleged incom petent evidence and that the instruction on self-defense is erroneous.

Appellant killed Leander Davis at the home of Marsh Johnson in Harlan county on January 26, 1929. The evidence shows there was ill feeling between appellant and the deceased and that they had had trouble on three…